HONG KONG - Ms Penny Chan, a 35-year-old public relations executive in the city, has been confined to a room about the size of a carpark lot just 800m from Disneyland.
She has been in the room at the much-talked about Penny's Bay quarantine camp for more than two weeks.
Ms Chan, along with eight other family members, including her parents, husband, brother and cousin's family, were infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus after attending two dinners at the start of Chinese New Year festivities.
Ms Chan, who is the only one in the family still in isolation, is still waiting for someone to tell her if her CT value or cycle threshold is safe enough to be let out.
"The process at Penny's Bay is not transparent at all. They don't tell you anything - not when you're to be tested, not the results after testing. They just ask you to wait," she told The Sunday Times.
In Hong Kong, those who test positive for Covid-19 cases used to be hospitalised. But, due to the exponential rise in infections, those with mild symptoms are now taken to AsiaWorld-Expo, which is next to Hong Kong's International Airport, other community isolation facilities, such as Penny's Bay, or made to stay at home.
Describing the whole experience as "very confusing and chaotic", Ms Chan said that unlike her other family members, she was the only one who tested negative initially.
As a close contact, she was still sent to a quarantine hotel where she later returned a positive result. Subsequently she was sent to Penny's Bay, which now houses 2,400 people.
"I'd already recovered when I was in the quarantine hotel but I'm still in Penny's Bay because I don't have my results," Ms Chan said.
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2022-02-19 12:38:00Z
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